Microsoft's Free Av Software Is Not A Public Beta!


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Microsoft's Free AV Software Is NOT A Public Beta!

Invited And Then Excluded From The Beta!

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kevpan815: The beta was limited to 75,000 people and it filled up pretty quickly within the first day or two of being made public. Please check back at later a date for possible additional availability.

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kevpan815: The beta was limited to 75,000 people and it filled up pretty quickly within the first day or two of being made public. Please check back at later a date for possible additional availability.

Therefore, the beta clearly is public. It's just that it has a limit (which was stated earlier.)

Hence "Holy crap, stop talking," because it turns out that you didn't research what you were talking about before posting, Kevin. :p

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Well, the BETA was indeed public, but not generally available to everyone. You should have grabbed it on the first day, and it was easily available then.

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why is MS demanding a high ram requirements even the antivirus itself is just using 3mb of ram in standby and 6 mb while scanning

and the storage is 140 mb and the installer is just 4mb and if you install it takes about 10mb on hd

Requirements:

For Vista / W7 - Memory: 1 GB RAM or higher

Storage: 140 MB of available hard-disk space

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I Just Got The Welcome E-Mail Yesterday 4 Pete's Sake. I Then Immediately Went 2 The Microsoft Connect Web Site 2 Download It And It Was Already 2 Late.

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why is MS demanding a high ram requirements even the antivirus itself is just using 3mb of ram in standby and 6 mb while scanning

and the storage is 140 mb and the installer is just 4mb and if you install it takes about 10mb on hd

Requirements:

For Vista / W7 - Memory: 1 GB RAM or higher

Storage: 140 MB of available hard-disk space

Yes... but still, it?s in BETA stage, so we can expect more improvements...

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Yes... but still, it?s in BETA stage, so we can expect more improvements...

i'm looking forward to it..but even its in beta it totally rocks

I just want them to add a jumplist for it in windows 7

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Thank You (The Burning Rom), I Got It From The Softpedia Website You Mentioned And Saved It 2 A USB Flash Drive (All 3 Versions) Just In Case Microsoft Forces Softpedia 2 Take It Down Later.

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If I Can Ask Another Question, Is This Build That I Just Downloaded From Softpedia The Official Beta, Or Is Is Some Interim Build Of Some Kind?

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If I Can Ask Another Question, Is This Build That I Just Downloaded From Softpedia The Official Beta, Or Is Is Some Interim Build Of Some Kind?

It says Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0.1407.00 Public Beta. Softpedia seems a respectable site. No reason not to believe them, right?

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why is MS demanding a high ram requirements even the antivirus itself is just using 3mb of ram in standby and 6 mb while scanning

and the storage is 140 mb and the installer is just 4mb and if you install it takes about 10mb on hd

Requirements:

For Vista / W7 - Memory: 1 GB RAM or higher

Storage: 140 MB of available hard-disk space

i think that the requirements takes into account the OS , any programs that might be used as vectors for infection (web browser, email client, IM, etc) , and maybe leaving some spare as well in case you do get infected...

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Yesterday Microsoft sent a "welcome beta" mail...

Got that too.

I didn't think I would be one of those 75,000 users to be testing this beta. Kudos to Microsoft for this easy UI with a reasonable amount of CPU usage.

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I Just Got The Welcome E-Mail Yesterday 4 Pete's Sake. I Then Immediately Went 2 The Microsoft Connect Web Site 2 Download It And It Was Already 2 Late.

seriously, learn to write with real words. Also every wrod in a sentence isn't capitalized, only the first word.

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seriously, learn to write with real words. Also every wrod in a sentence isn't capitalized, only the first word

L.O.L.

*Seriously*

*Full stop at the end of every sentence*

See me.

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why is MS demanding a high ram requirements even the antivirus itself is just using 3mb of ram in standby and 6 mb while scanning

and the storage is 140 mb and the installer is just 4mb and if you install it takes about 10mb on hd

Requirements:

For Vista / W7 - Memory: 1 GB RAM or higher

Storage: 140 MB of available hard-disk space

the hard disk space is probably for the virus valt, where things that are quarantined are kept. As for the memory requirements, the program itself doesn't need a gig of ram, that is how much they recommend to ensure stable and uninterrupted operation with your OS

It says Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0.1407.00 Public Beta. Softpedia seems a respectable site. No reason not to believe them, right?

Unless they have express permission from Microsoft, which I doubt, it is illegal for them to be distributing MSE

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